[Opensim-users] Touch to open by other users not working?

[Dr Ramesh Ramloll]

Hi dz,
I designed my environment so that the inventory is bypassed wholesale.
Shortening the log in-do-get out time is too critical for us.
R

On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 11:04 PM, dz <dz at bitzend.net> wrote:
>
>
> There is a much simpler OpenSim solution, unless there is some OTHER REASON
> to teach the student about interacting with "BUY" objects.
>
> Put the uniforms in the grid library.
> Everyone in the grid should be able to drag the uniform folder from the
> library to inventory and wear.
>
> I believe there have been recent advances that allow IAR files to be added
> directly to the grid library.
>
> I would generate an avatar that has all of the inventory items a new student
> would need, generate the IAR file for that avatar, and add it
> to the grid library..
>
> It may be confusing to explain that they can't wear things directly out of
> the library, and have to copy it to inventory first, but I find that
> teaching them to look in the library for things they may need is a LOT
> easier than sending them to find and interact with unfamiliar in-world
> objects.
>
> d
>
>>
>>
>> > On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Dr Ramesh Ramloll <r.ramloll at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> This is the use case: Students logs in, and need to wear uniform. They
>> >> are not Second Life users, don't want to buy anything, just wear the
>> >> uniform and proceed to do their task. After they do their thing, they
>> >> will never ever log into the environment again. Aim here is to go in,
>> >> do you stuff in a team and get out with minimal number of things to
>> >> learn etc...
>> >> While I understand that Second Life *expects* prior knowledge of a
>> >> certain kind which grew based on the trajectory of the environment, it
>> >> might not be helpful to project this expectation on the 'casual' user
>> >> because this usually leads to things that they need to learn before
>> >> they actually get to do things they need to (which I equate to user
>> >> interface noise).
>> >> Ramesh
>> >>
>
>
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